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Complete Garbage

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 26
Date: April 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

After unloading a full clip at a nazi ten feet away from me, and hitting nothing for the hundreth time, I uninstalled this game and deleted the... file. I'm very happy with the price I paid for it.

This game is repetitive, annoying, and frustrating.

Repetitive: every mission is almost exactly the same. Move a little forward, trigger the oncoming nazis, command your squad to shoot while you navigate around the obstacles to shoot the nazis which become instantly aware of your presence through some mystical scrying powers.

Annoying: You can only listen to the BAP BAP BAP BAP of an MG42 endlessly firing without ever having to swap hot barrels for a good hour or two before you smash your speakers through the nearest window. The speech your squadmates shout is always the same. I got sick of hearing the same darn loud annoying voice everytime I issued a command.

Frustrating: There is no way to hit anything in this game. Your gun constantly wavers about uselessly. You can use up all your ammo shooting at one stinkin' guy because your highly accurate M1 rifle couldn't hit Fat Albert if he was strapped to the broad side of a big red barn that was on fire. You can round a corner and unload an entire clip of your Thompson at a guy, crosshairs dead-on, and pepper the wall behind him, but put zero holes in him. What is this, Pulp Fiction? This was the last straw for me.

I decided it wasn't worth finishing this game. I kept rounding a particular corner armed with the foreknowledge of the enemy's position (there's no variation in this game) and kept unloading my Thompson on him, and kept getting instantly killed. Over and over and over. It has since been uninstalled, saves and profile deleted.

Good attempt, CRAPPY results......Don't buy it!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 17
Date: March 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First of all, any review of this game dated before March is a load of lies. LIES!!!! This game was not available until 3/2005! Not August 2004!!! How honest can a reviewer of this product be if the game was not available at the time the review was written? Go home losers! Get a life!

Let me cut to the quick -
Brothers in Arms tries to be Call Of Duty with squad based action. IT FAILS MISERABLY!!!!!!

This game tries to offer a really solid, SQUAD based game. No more typical First Person shooter. In other words, you don't go running full speed shooting everything in site! And your squad mates actually do help you defeat the enemy.

SADLY, this sounds better than it actually is.

Game graphics -
This game runs on the Unreal Engine so I expected top of the line graphics. You get far less than that! Even the soldiers have NO facial expressions. Their lips move but the face does not change or offer any emotion or expression. Stick lips on a 2"x6" pine plank and you will get the same experience!!!

Vocals/Dialog -
OHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh soooo painful! Cliche' after cliche', tons of curse words thrown in as a desperate attempt to give you the "grit" of war. Bad monologues that run on forever, bad cutscenes, nothing interesting at all.

Weapons -
Nice selection...but highly inaccurate!!! To get any accurate shooting done, you MUST aim down the barrel. With all the fast action going on, you have no time to aim and line up a shot. If you shoot with out aiming, you better be 2 feet away from the guy...and even then they will kill you quick!!!
You will not get the chance to use many of the weapons either...unless you hunt on the ground for the dead soldiers dropped weapons.

Gameplay -
Squad based activity is decent but repetitive. The missions are almost pointless and definitely are redundant! It winds up turning into the same thing everytime. Get ready, start the mission, Germans appear, order your squad to provide cover fire while you flank them and kill them. Wash, rinse and repeat....until the game is finally done!

Game Length -
Short and not creative. I finished this game on the Difficult setting in 7 hours. I finished it on the hardest setting in 10 hours. Too short and the gameplay is so clumsy at times that you just don't want to play it again. Not rewarding at all.

Gearbox Does It Again

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: April 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The flaws in this game can be broken down into a number of areas. And sadly, the biggest flaw is with the very concept of the game itself: the idea of 'the most realistic combat experience of all time'.

First, as many have noted, it is next to impossible to hit your target. The major cause of this is the irritating and pointless gun waver, which happens in roughly the same amount regardless of your stance (crouch or standing, as you cannot go prone). This is a new feature in shooters that I frankly just don't understand. Why on earth would you want to pay money to have a program forcibly mess up your aim? One can make all the arguments about realism they want, but in reality lots of things are possible to stabilize your weapon - resting against a wall, leaning on a surface, lying on the ground, etc. How can anyone crow about realism when all your getting are the real hindrances, and none of the real possibilities to counter those problems?

Shooting is also hampered by the extremely overdone "iron sight" mode, which obscures about 60% of the screen. More reality? Perhaps if you're a cyclops. The final nail in the coffin for shooting is the seemingly random hit detection. It's common to be standing in a room ten feet from the enemy and unloading on him with your weapon and hitting nothing. Cover only exacerbates the problem. Seriously, if a person's head is sticking out of cover you should be able to hit him.

All of these problems combine to make the shooting aspect of the game absolutely miserable. Since this is a shooter, that's not the best start.

The remaining elements of the game don't fare much better. AI is wonky - if it's not executing a direct, scripted action they're about as dumb as posts. In one map I stood in the open in front of a German with an MG42 and he just stared at me. I guess that's only fair, because even though he was in the open I was completely unable to hit him. A lot was made about the ability to order your squads to perform "real military maneuvers", but in actuality there is just one such maneuver: suppress and flank. Over and over and over. And it's not even an open environment. You just have to order your men to suppress one part of the corridor, go to the one place you can flank the enemy, and shoot them from that other part of the corridor. Get comfortable, it will take a while - and you'll be doing the exact same move for the entire game.

The presentation doesn't help matters. The graphics look really outdated. The facial animations are very limited (although the eyes do look nice), and lipsynching is comically bad. The strict linearity of the game is enforced by hedgerows that are apparently made of concrete - the entire world feels stiff and unnatural.

Then we have the story. There really is no other word for it than hackneyed. Some reviewers have said that this is an "adult" view of a war video game. Strange how people equate "adult" with "long-winded", because that's what this game is. Trite, long-winded, hackneyed, and excruciatingly lame. It's like the videogame version of Trent Malick's pompous "Thin Red Line". Soldiers reciting poetry, speaking in grave tones about sophomoric things. I half expected some blond-haired moppet to pop out and ask innocently, "Daddy, what's a war?". It's seriously that bad.

The matter isn't helped by the fact that if you don't wait just long enough before quitting for the autosave, you'll be forced to listen to some of the opening speeches over and over. If I hear that stupid story about the guy who slices his hard-boiled eggs again, I swear I'll kick a puppy. These embarassing speeches fail to lend the game its desired gravitas, and the resulting muddled presentation isn't helped by the addition of several cheesy jokes that were apparently written by a sixth grader ("'Say hello to them infantry style'? You mean ... kill them?").

Overall, there's not a lot to recommend this game. If you're still interested in seeing it I strongly recommend playing a demo before shelling out the cash.

This crap is getting old

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 25
Date: March 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm getting really tired of this stuff. At first it was fun, with Medal of Honor and Call of Duty. Then, just like when you chew a bubble gum too much, it starts to lose the taste. Still, I enjoyed Battlefield 1942 a lot.

However, I had enough of this. The 3 games I mentioned above have covered almost every major battle of WWII, from Berlin, to Normandy, to Stalingrad, Tobruk and El Alamein. There's nothing else games can do about WWII. We've seeing it all- except as games where you can play the Axis. (But EA and others care more about marketing and politically correctness, that we'll never see that happen.)

To sum it up, I've blow up way too many Anti-Air guns, rescued too many British prisioners, and stolen too many secret documents. The mentioned games had taken me trough D-Day a couple hundred times. I've had enough of it. It's not fun anymore.

You don't believe me? Then remember my review when you're parachuting into Normandy for the 85457th time, and ask yourself, "Am I playing this because I want to see how it ends and I enjoy it, or am I playing this to justify the money I spent on this and don't really care about what happens?"

For the game developers: Any new ideas?

If Only I could load the game...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: December 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Unfortunately this game would not load out of the box. After contacting UBI Soft support and answering several times that my system meets or exceeds their published minimum requirements, they provided me with a long list of fixes. After trying the first few with no success I gave up. I did however load and unload this software three times before giving up.

I have loaded and played with great success Call of Duty, Call of Duty II, Medal of Honor with all of the expansion packs, Far Cry, Doom3 and had no such problems. I have returned the game for replacement or refund without any Luck so far. Gaming is for entertainment not work. Stay tuned and avoid this game if your specs are marginal. I have a 2.4 Ghz, 512 Ram, NVidia GeForce4 MX420, 64MB, running Windows XP.

Technology Issues

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 24
Date: March 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game has severe technology issues, especially pertaining to video cards. It does not run on certain very common video cards such as the GeForce4 MX 420. I wasted my money on this game that I now cannot play unless I buy and install a brand new video card. I have heard of other problems such as constant crashing, as well. My advice to you would be to research your system specs and make sure you can run the game. Unless you're a tech geek with a ton of customized specs or someone with a very new computer, it probably will give you trouble.

Don't buy if you have a 6600GT PCIExpress

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: March 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I can't even install this game as it fails on install claiming that I don't have a video card. Maybe they forgot that not everyone is still using AGP cards (or maybe it is my 64 bit AMD proc)? Either way, tech support has been slow in getting back to me. If you are using newer hardware, you are rolling the dice on $50.

old game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 38
Date: March 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Why is this game being advertised on television as if it is a new game? It is a year old and apparently a port to the PC.

BORING!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: April 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is a total flaw it self its garbage it should belong in the bin.if you badly like ww2 shooters then get call of duty double pack it has two call of duty games.This game is the dumbest game in the world its a waste of money.

Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 (DVD-ROM)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 45
Date: March 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I don't seem to understand why you can't play this game on your CD-ROM instead your dvd-rom?

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